264 JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES VOL. 1 1 , NO. 1 1 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Pick and Hammer Club met at the Interior Department at 8 p.m. 

 on Saturday, April 30. Prof. E. W. Berry of John Hopkins University 

 gave an illustrated talk on Impressions of Peru and Bolivia. 



The National Academy of Sciences held its annual meeting in Washington, 

 April 25-27. Sessions for the presentation of scientific papers were held 

 at the National Museum on April 25 and 26. The following-nam.ed 15 per- 

 sons were elected to membership: Frank Michler Chapman, ornithol- 

 ogist, American Museum of Natural History, New York; Willi^vm Leroy 

 Emmet, electrical engineer, General Electric Company; William Draper 

 Harkins, chemist, University of Chicago; AlES Hrdlicka, anthropologist, 

 National Museum; Arthur William Kennelly, engineer, Harvard Uni- 

 versity; William George MacCallum, pathologist, Johns Hopkins Med- 

 ical School, Baltimore; Dayton Clarence Miller, physicist, Case School 

 of x\pplied Science, Cleveland, Ohio; George Abram MillER, mathemati- 

 cian. University of Ilhnois; Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, botanist. Harvard 

 University; Vesto Melvin Slipher, astronomer, Lowell Observatory, Flag- 

 staff, Arizona; Lewis Buckley StillwELL, electrical engineer. New York 

 City; Donald Dexter Van Slyke, biochemist, Rockefeller Institute for 

 Medical Research, New York City; Thomas Wayland Vaughan, geologist, 

 U. S. Geological Survey; Henry Stephens Washington, geochemist. Geo- 

 physical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington; Robert Sessions 

 WoODWORTH, psychologist, Columbia University. 



Mr. Arthur E. Fath returned to the U. S. Geological Survey on April 

 29, after several months' furlough. 



Dr. Joseph GrinnEll, director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 

 Berkeley, California, was in Washington in May studying the ornithological 

 collections at the National Museum. 



Mr. O. B. Hopkins has submitted his resignation as geologist in the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, effective April 1, to continue his work in the prospective 

 oil fields of Canada. 



Dr. Robert Ricgway, of the U. S . National Museum, receixed the Daniel 

 Giraud Elliot Medal of the National Academy of Sciences on April 26, for 

 his studies of the birds of North America. 



Dr. H. L. Shantz, agricultural explorer of the Department of Agriculture, 

 lectured before the Cosmos Club on April 25 on Some experiences of a trip 

 from the Cape to Cairo. 



Mr. E. W. Shaw, geologist, resigned from the U. S. Geological Survey on 

 March 30 to take up consultation work in oil and gas. 



Dr. C. W. Stiles, of the Hygienic Laboratory, U. S. Public Health Service, 

 received on April 26 a gold medal of the National Academy of Sciences "for 

 eminence in the application of science to the public welfare," in recognition 

 of his work on the hookworm disease. 



Dr. Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, re- 

 ceived the first award of the Mary Clark Thompson Medal of the National 

 Academy of vSciences, for distinguished achievement in geology and paleon- 

 tolog^^ The medal was awarded at the meeting of the Academv on April 26. 



Mr. Arthur R. Willis, chemist with the U. S. Tariff Commission, met 

 death by accidental drowning in the Potomac River on April 24, 1921. Mr. 

 Willis was a native of Ohio, and was 29 jxars of age. He was a member 

 of the Chemical Society. 



